Cancer surgery

INTERNATIONAL SPECIALISTS

Russia lacks experienced specialists able to perform certain key surgical procedures. For instance, non-traumatic bone surgery helps to restore cancer-impaired limbs. This actually can make all the difference between full recovery and a lifetime of disability. While such experts can be found abroad, the significant costs of sending a child to another country for treatment mean that many children struggle to receive the care they need, even with the generous aid of our donors.

European experts

We have already been able to secure the participation of such renowned international experts as Ingo Melcher of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, Germany.

With your aid, we hope to bring many more surgeons to perform operations at the Centre. Eventually, this project will ensure that all Russian children with cancer can receive the treatment they need in Russia.

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The acute lymphoblastic leukaemia just wouldn’t go away. Elvira (Elya to her friends) went through treatment three times, had two relapses, and finally received a bone marrow transplant. Elya’s donor was her father Raul. This interview with a deeply beloved father and his hundred-percent-compatible daughter turned into a talk with the two people closest to each other. Please welcome the latest heroes of the Blood Family project, Elya and Raul Abdulov.

On the 26th of November, let’s get together over a cup of tea to celebrate Podari Zhizn’s birthday and donate to help pay for cancer treatments for children in Gift of Life’s care. Choose your own treats - from cupcakes, bagels and profiteroles to pasties and pirozhkis. And it doesn’t even have to be tea – coffee or any drink of your choice will work just as well. Enjoy your tea and make it count!

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WEDNESDAY 24th October 2018, 7PM
London premiere - a charity performance of THE LITTLE PRINCE with CHULPAN KHAMATOVA. Tickets are limited. Book yours today.
All proceeds will benefit children in the care of Gift of Life.

This is WOW so cool! In less than a month Gift of Life Patron Pavel Morozov is swimming the English Channel to raise funds for the kids with cancer in Russia. You are very welcome to support this challenge.

The story of Nastya Zerova, a girl from the little town of Gubakh in Perm Krai, can be called nothing but amazing. All manner of remarkable things happened to Nastya and her mother Vera thanks to the acute myeloblastic leukaemia Nastya was diagnosed with in 2008.

Mad Tea Party, or Bezumnoe Chaepitie, is an annual charity initiative held on the 26th of November to mark the birthday of Podari Zhizn, our sister charity foundation. The idea behind Mad Tea Party is to raise a cup of tea, or coffee, to Podari Zhizn’s achievements and support children with cancer.